Jean Paul
Jean Paul
Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 March 1763
CountryGermany
race endeavor humans
Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race.
oysters shrimp matter
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
hate generations dry
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
years differences hours
Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
ideas maintaining prove
Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
nature eye escaping
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
filled-up existentialism plunge
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
philosophical men
Man is condemned to be free
existentialism nothingness
Nothingness haunts Being.
boredom long soul
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
tease used ifs
You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.
sleep waiting needs
So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.
hands ideas creating
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.
firsts principles emotion
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident